Winter Carols
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| Studio album by Blackmore's Night | ||||
| Released | October 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Celtic, folk rock, neo-medieval, Christmas music | |||
| Length | 42:38 | |||
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AFM Records (Germany) Locomotive Music (US) |
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| Producer | Pat Regan | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |
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| Metal Storm | (7.4/10) |
Winter Carols is the sixth studio album by the group Blackmore's Night, released in the United Kingdom on October, 2006, and in the United States on November 7, 2006. It is a Christmas themed album. The cover artwork for this album, painted by Karsten Topelmann, is an adaptation of a street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, in line with the band's heavy Renaissance influence. The same street is portrayed in the cover of Blackmore's Night's second studio album, Under a Violet Moon. In the cover of "Winter Carols" the street is painted as winter time, whereas Under a Violet Moon's cover takes place on apparently a summer night. While the selections "Winter (Basse Dance)" is credited to Ritchie Blackmore as composer, it is an adaptation of the second section of Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fantasía para un gentilhombre," which Rodrigo composed for classical guitar virtuoso Andres Segovia in 1954.
On December 2006, Winter Carols entered at #7 on USA Billboard New Age Charts.
The album won the New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Award as the Best Holiday Album.
The album was re-issued in 2013 with an additional CD of live versions, along with that year's single - a reworking of the track Christmas Eve
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